No they can't, it was expected to lose against Ence since Ence is looking insane right now, but NIP? No way, NIP is the worst team of the tournament, they would've lost against lvl 10 faceit mix with today's performance.

NaVi ban Vertigo
NiP ban Dust2
NaVi pick Nuke
NiP pick Mirage
NaVi ban Overpass
NiP ban Train
Inferno was left over
NaVi are in a really bad form rn., NiP has insane potential, and I think it's just the matter of time before they will fight for the biggest tournaments, but they need time with new leader, still I would say that they will win this one 2-1, but everything can happen here.
2-1 NiP
NiP 50/50 Natus Vincere

If you're talking about Navi then you are greatly mistaken. Navi just can't cope with any pressure inside the team. They can also lose a shooting range of 3,4 to a team and can win a shooting range of 1 team. Everything depends on them. Believe in them.

There is no way that NiP will win this bo3. Navi looks very strong and Nip look weak, they did improve alot and had some real good results with Lekro, all in vain.
Navi will run them over, I did bet my life pretty much on them, someone go with me?

never called him a bot for losing to eco. in this dreamhack i just noticed all of his kills are from enemy team eco rounds, and pistol rounds. and on rifle rounds he get 1-2 kills here and there, basically useless. against vitality, perfecto was fragging over s1mple, that was sad

lol not rush, but to hold it? i dont see any awpers gets 1 kill and run away fast to save their awp, rather than reposition for another kill. he started to play like jame
who tf said anything about rush? stay on site and hold it, try to retake

there was 2 rifler on the a site and none of them got a kill. awper cannot hold an angle if they can push from other angles. i admit he dropped off lately but you just trying to find his every mistake.

dude more like u cover up for his every mistake, are u his lawyer? hes fucking playing jame style, kill 1, go save. eco? play agressive gets 3k to boost his stats. bomb planted= insta save.
real top players try to actually fucking retake and clutch.

you didnt see that 2v4 retake from elec and s1mple? every other awper would save in that situation. "real top players try to actually fucking retake and clutch." s1mple is always getting criticised for doing this xD

ENCE Kicked Aleksib = Trash
Faze Kicked Karrigan = Trash for so long
Alex left Vatality = They struggle
Gla1ve took a rest = Astralis got fucked by g2 right in their ass
North kick Valde = more trash, they were already trash before anyway
But NIP, good form with Lekro, they don't learn from other teams that lost their IGL, instead.. they replaced Lekro, the heavy-hitter IGL with Washed up gamerlegion the 1000 tier team Hampus.
Lekro is like Diamond, Hampus is like a fucking rock.
They traded Diamond with a fucking rock. What a retard trade.

The scary thing for nip is that lekr0 was quite a good fragger often.
Hampus so far seems to be way behind in that regard, despite i admit he needs time.
My problem with him is that he's been arond for quite a while, he is not young promising talent, at least for me. We'll see...
Speaking of talents, where is the firepower, plopski? REZ?!?!?
I am sad because i kinda liked last nip with lekro, they felt like team, noone too shiny, but everyone contributing.
Now they got destroyed. Hopefully it will click with hampus.

Lekr0 had pretty good stats too... one of the worst moves.
Hampus will never ever achieve 1.05 rating in pro games (top20/30) ... from what I have seen he will have stats like karrigan or hunden ~0.75 max